new site was purchased in Grogan Street. On Sunday 29 April 1934, Bishop John Heavey officially opened the new St Augustine's complex at Grogan Street, consisting of a presbytery, a combined church and school building, and a convent. The architect was Vibert McKirdy Brown. St Augustine's Catholic School opened with 70 students, with the initial teachers being Sisters Mary Agnes, Gabriel, Cecelia and Pius of the Sisters of Mercy. On 30 January 1977, a new hexagonal-shaped St Augustine's church opened on the Grogan Street site with the former church being converted into school classrooms. During World War II, Mossman was attacked in a Japanese air raid on 31 July 1942. A single flying boat dropped a bomb that fell near a house and injured a child. Mossman State High School opened on 30 January 1973. Mossman Library opened in 1977. At the , the town of Mossman had a population of 1,740. Prior to 2008, Mossman was the seat of the Shire of Douglas. In 2008, the Shire of Douglas was amalgamated into the Cairns Region, which was administered from both Cairns and Mossman. In 2014, the Shire of Douglas was de-amalgamated from Cairns Region and reinstated as Shire of Douglas. In the , the locality of Mossman had a population of 1,937 people. Heritage listings Mossman has a number of heritage-listed sites, including: Johnston Road: Mossman District Hospital 2 Front Street: Exchange Hotel (formerly Daintree Inn) 3 Foxton Avenue: St David's Anglican Church 8–14 Mill Street: Mossman Shire Hall and Douglas Shire Council Chambers 11 Mill Street: National Bank of Australasia Building Mossman Central Mill Mossman Central Mill Company Limited opened in 1894 as co-operative sugar mill owned by local sugarcane farmers. The first sugarcane was crushed on 23 August 1897, the sugarcane coming from Bonnie Doon. Annie Rose fed the first sugarcane into the mill, with the mill producing its first sugar after crushing of cane for the initial season. In 1906, Mossman Mill became the first Queensland mill to crush over of cane. That season lasted just under 8 months, extending from June 1906 to late January 1907. Initially, sugar was transported by sea from Port Douglas, but later the sugar was taken by road to the bulk sugar terminal in Cairns. Louis John Frederick Prince (General Manager) pioneered the use of computers for cane payment accounting and, in 1971, Mossman purchased the first process control computer